[2] Arunan left the TMC and became a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in early 2001.
[4] In the 2006 elections, he stood as a BJP candidate in Tenkasi and came a very distant third place, with 5190 votes.
[5][6] Arunan was a member of the Oil Selection Board at the Indian Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, created in 1993, which consisted of a chairman (Justice M. Maruthamuthu) and two members (K. Ravi Arunan and P. Subbarayan).
The board had jurisdiction over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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